Character/Setting/Plot
Comprehension Materials for
“How to Eat Fried Worms”
Common Core GPS
ELACC3RL1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text,
referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
ELACC4RL1: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says
explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
ELACC5RL1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly
and when drawing inferences from the text.
ELACC6RL1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says
explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
ELACC7RL1: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the
text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
ELACC8RL1: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of
what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
 To cite evidence of what the text says explicitly -- Use these
pictures with the story “How to Eat Fried Worms”, either the adapted
PowerPoint version or the original version of the story, for instruction and
assessment of students’ abilities to:
- answer comprehension questions about the story
- retell the story
- provide character/setting/plot information
- sequence events in the story
Directions: Print each slide (on cardstock if possible for increased durability)
then cut out each picture and laminate each.
-Add a small piece of rough Velcro® to the backs of each picture to use to
complete the character/setting/plot graphic organizers or to use
with felt/velcro boards.
-Use materials to assess students’ comprehension via types of activities
listed above
Materials created by Jessie Moreau, M.Ed., NBCT
Gwinnett County Public Schools
Character/Setting/Plot Template Directions
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Use this Character/Setting/Plot template to help work on
comprehension skills of grade level literature and adapted
stories with your students. You can use these pages for sorting,
matching, and answering questions regarding the selected story.
Copy and paste the appropriate Characters, Setting, and Plot
pictures/symbols from your adapted story CDs, the internet, or
scanned pictures from the books themselves,
Print the Character/Setting/Plot pages and these picture/word
cards on cardstock. Cut out the pictures then laminate, if
possible. Use the soft side of sticky-back Velcro™ on the pages
and rough Velcro™ on the backs of the pictures. (Aileen’s Tack
It Over and Over™ can be utilized on the backs of laminated
pictures as an alternate adhesive.)
Bind the pages with a plastic binder to hold the pages together.
*Teaching and assessment tips:
Use the cards and pages to teach the story’s Characters, Setting
and Plot. Choose the black bordered symbols or the colorcoded symbols based upon student needs.
You can then use the same activity to assess student
comprehension of the story. Print out the pages and pictures for
students to cut and paste as their final assessment. This
student work then becomes documentation which can be
submitted as a student work sample.
Concept created by Barbara Monday, SLP; Floyd County Schools
Template directions by Jessie Moreau, Gwinnett County Public Schools
Name __________________________________ Date ________________
Characters
Characters are the people, animals
or things that provide the action in
a story.
Refer to the story to find the characters.
MMcTek/2007 & JMoreau/2012
Name __________________________________ Date ________________
Setting
The setting is where the story
or events of the story takes place.
Refer to the story to find the settings.
MMcTek/2007 & JMoreau/2012
Name __________________________________ Date ________________
Plot
The plot is what happens in the story.
Refer to the story to find the plot/episodes.
MMcTek/2007 & JMoreau/2012
Name ____________________________________________ Date _____________________
Setting
Plot
Identify the character and corresponding setting and plot/event from 1 scene from the story.
Character
Name ____________________________________________ Date _____________________
Setting
Plot
Identify the character and corresponding setting and plot/event from 1 scene from the story.
Character
Identify the corresponding character, setting and plot/event from 2 scenes from the story.
Setting
Plot
Name ____________________________________________ Date _____________________
Character
Identify the corresponding character, setting and plot/event from 2 scenes from the story.
Setting
Plot
Name ____________________________________________ Date _____________________
Character
Character pictures - color-coded set
Billy
Tom
Joe
Alan
Billy’s Mom
Billy’s Dad
Character pictures - color-coded set
friends
Joe and Alan
Billy and Alan
Billy and Tom
outside school
worm
Billy, Joe and
Alan
Setting pictures - color-coded set
Billy’s house
outside school
in the dirt
at home and school
Setting pictures - color-coded set
parents’ bedroom
tool shed
Billy’s window
baseball game
Billy’s bedroom
the basket
Plot pictures - color-coded set
make a bet
will eat 15 worms
15
eats worms with
ketchup & mustard
fries worm in
cornmeal
feed Billy a worm
eat hamburgers and
candy
Plot pictures - color-coded set
makes Whizbang
Worm Sundae
makes grilled cheese
and worm sandwich
has nightmares about
worms
calls
Poison Control
glue trick worm
forgets to eat a worm
Plot pictures/1 character picture - color-coded set
finds a raw worm
sends up worm in
basket
loses bet – pays $50
opens door, let’s Billy out
eats the 15th worm
wins the bet